Indiana Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - November 7, 1931, Indiana, Pennsylvania fair and Warmer today and to morrow Is official word of the for this section of the VOLUME 64 TWELVE PAGES INDIANA PENNSYLVANIA SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 1931 TWO SECTIONS Armistice Sunday Mu turn was afe so lif Church and Theatre morlat services tomorrow TWO CENTS b CRACK LEHIGH EXPRESS Japanese Victory As Foreign Nations Demand Pead TRAINMEN HURT WHEN ENGINE OVERTURNED Engineer and Fireman Badly Scalded As Pennsy Flier Leaves Tracks Just West of Johnstown SEVEN INJURED JOHNSTOWN Nov Seven men were injured two cally today when the fast eastbound Lehigh Express of the Pennsylvania Railroad was derailed on a near here crossed two tracks and crashed into a westbound freight All cars of the express were de railed and five empty coal cars were knocked from the rails one plunging clown a 40foot embankment into the Conemaugh river Engineer William and Fireman Alexander McGee both of Pittsburgh crew of the express were caught in their overturned tive Steam from bursted pipes sur rounded the cab of the engine scald ing both seriously McFayden was the most seriously hurt and was unable to give Lee Hospital attaches His Pittsburgh ad dress McKee also was in critical con dition and his relatives were sum moned The other five suffered cuts and bruises They included William Liberty 42 Johnstown freight brakeman who was dead heading in the baggage car Grace Cordi 4S Derry trackman and passenger both in Cambria Hospi tal Royal H Crocker 39 negro porter in Lee Hospital Gil bert Gray 49 Pittsburgh master and Milton Funkhouser New Jersey express in Memorial Hospital The locomotive of the Lehigh Ex press was virtually demolished it was said The baggage car was upend ed and turned completely about and the other cars of the express two coaches a diner and a Pullman were derailed but did not over turn The express locomotive which witnesses said was traveling at a high rate of speed left the No 3 track at the point of a curve at Dor nick Point on the outskirts of Johns town west of here It crossed the tracks No 1 and 2 and hit the freight running west on Track No 5 The freight was composed of empty coal cars The derailment blocked all five tracks of the main line at that point Railroad officials who arrived at the scene a short time after the wreck said they believed Track No 5 could be cleared for passenger trains by 2 P M this afternoon WEDDING PLANE IN FORCED LANDING FRANKLIN Nov Two naval combat planes carrying to a Franklin wedding landed here today after they had been fore od to land at DuBois because the snow They carried Ensign Hirsch a cousin oC Charles Barrow who ia Lo bo married today Ensign Coun tryman Lieutenants Wildman Ball The planes left Philadel yesterday Bennett Hit On Highway Henry Bennett aged 37 years oJ Huff is a patient in the Indiana Hos pital today being brought here by a Blairsville ambulance about oclock this morning he having been found in tho Penn Highway 12 miles from Blairsville lying along road He claims he was struck by a driver Bennetts condition is good no bad cuts or bruises showing on his body He probably will be discharged to day During the last tour months the victim is said to have been in hos four times as the result of similar accidents ust July he was admitted to the Indiana Hospital as the result of a accident He was in a hospital in October was discharged from the Lee Memorial Hospital Johnstown yesterday and is today in Hospital Attention Hunters and sportsmen rifle shoots every Friday evenings at American Legion Hall Homer City Turkeys ducks chickens and geese Ladies invited 69x water and air for all Parts Hit UNCLAIMED MOTOR LICENSE BLANKS RETURNED TO CAPITAL HARRISBURG Nov UP One hundred and six mail sacks containing un claimed motor license applica tions have been returned to the State Motor Vehicle Bureau ac cording to announcement today Bureau heads said that almost half of the applications were re turned from six cities as follows Philadelphia Pittsburgh Scranton Altoona Erie and Reading Last year applications were returned The bureau has sent out applications for licenses for 1932 TURNER LYDIC FATALLY HURT Former Wei 1Known Resident of Indiana In jured in Construction Work in Mrs Whitehead Dead OTHER DEATHS John Turner Lydic John Turner Lydic 41 a native of Washington township and a son of Sara E Lydic of 603 College avenue this city was fatally injured near Baltimore while in the employ of the Casey Construc tion Company of Pittsburgh Mr Ly dic had been a resident of Indiana for many years prior to removing to Blaw nox in 1922 He leaves his moth er his widow and several children Funeral services and interment will occur in Baltimore Sunday afternoon Mrs Mary Stake Mary Pittman Stake died at her home in township No vember 3 at the age of 87 She was born in Brushvalley township October 29 1844 and in 1866 was married to Jeremiah Stake To this union three children were born Albert Stake re siding on the homestead Mrs John Goodline of Blairsville and Mrs David Martin of Indiana There are also nine grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren She was a member of the Evangelical church for many years Funeral services were conduc ted by her pastors the Rev Messrs Richards in the Lutheran Church in Brushvalley Thursday No vember 5 Miss Charlotte Whitehead PITTSBURGH Nov Charlotte B King Whitehead widow of Bishop Cortlandt Whitehead died in Greenwich yesterday Mrs Whitehead was born in Boston in 1845 Her husband who was bishop oi the Episcopal Pittsburgh for 40 years died in 1922 She leaves three daugh ters Miss Margaret V C Whitehead Miss Penelope Parker Whitehead and Mrs Presley Neville Guthrie all of Greenwich a son John Continued on Page Two SAWYER LAD TO LEAVE HOSPITAL Howard Glenn Sawyer the 6year old son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Sawyer of town who was run over yesterday morning by an was discharged from the Indiana Hospital today The Xray pictures taken of How ard yesterday showed nothing and outside of bruises the little fellow received his condition is good and his speedy recovery is expected Yesterday morning about the little fellow was rim over by an au near the entrance to ihe Training School on Washington street U S TREASURY NET BALANCE WASHINGTON Nov The Treasury net balance Nov 5 was Expenditures for that day were Customs receipts for the month thru Nov 5 were and 500 Party Social Hall St Bernard Church Nov 12th 8 Oclock 64x Veterans of Foreign Au has been received from Post 141 American Legion to attend their Memorial Service lu the Ritz Theatre Sunday November 8 at P M A space has been re served for members of the V F W All comrades are requested to meet in the lobby of the theatre and with the jn this tribute to departed comrades A F Flaming Ruins Of AirLiner In Which Five Were Killed NEA Philadelphia Bureau blazing of wreckage was a funeral pyre for five aboard a air li ner which crashed and was enveloped in flames on the grounds of a golf club near Central Air port Camden N J The complete wreckage of the plane made the cause of the accident difficult to determine The craft en route to the capital from Newark had been scheduled to stop at Camden to let one of the passengers off prevented fir men from taking the bodies of the from the ruins for nearly an hour PROGRAMS IN CHURCH THEATRE Blinded Veteran of War to Speak to Combined Adult Mens Classes and at Indiana Posts Memorial Exercises PROGRAM NOTES Lieut Frank S Schobel blind ed veteran of the World War here to speak at the annual memorial exer cises of Indiana Post No 141 The American Legion in the Ritz theatre Sunday afternoon at oclock was also the honored guest and speaker at the meeting of the Post in Me Hall Friday evening Follow ing the meeting at which Lieut Schoble spoke feelingly and impres sively of experiences of tho Ameri cans in France there Avas a joint gathering with the Post Auxiliary Luncheon was served and a play was given by a thespian group of High School The lieutenant respond ed again with a few appropriate words Tomorrow morning at oclock in the First United Presbyterian Church there will be a massed meet ing of the Adult Bible Classes of In diana at which the speaker will yet again be Lieut Schoble Members of every adult class and men in general whether members or not are cordial ly urged to be present The formal memorial service of In diana Post No 141 The American Legion will he held in the the atre tomorrow afternoon at oclock Members of the Legion La Continued on Page Two Pleads To Embedding PITTSBURGH NOV up Miss Esther Burley 47 Juniata pleaded guilty in federal court here yesterday of embezzling from the bank of which she was assistant cashier Miss Burley testified she started working for the First National Bank 22 years ago as a clerk at per month She was promoted to assist ant cashier and was a month when he confessed shortages were discovered Miss Burley said most of tho money was used to buy necessities for the three sisters she supports The peculations were discovered when the bank was consolidated with the First National Bank of Altoona covered a period five years was In Which 5 Died He alone could have told the full story of the tragic air transport ac cident in which live lives were lost in a crash at ff J lint Floyd C Cox above one of the most skillful pilots of the passenger Hue was one of those who died in flaming wreckage A Department of Commerce investigation is attempt ing to determine the cause of the crash NATION MOURNS SENATORS DEATH Thaddeus H Caraway One of Foremost Polit ical Leaders Passed Away Suddenly in Lit tle Rock Home BY SAM UP Staff Correspondent LITTLE ROCK Nov UP The state of Arkansas with the whole nation prepared today to pay tribute to one of its foremost states men Senator Thaddeus H Caraway who died suddenly last night Senator Caraways body was here awaiting arrival of his from Washington Funeral services and burial will be held early next week at his home The death unexpected He had been in hospital recovering V Uid QII f FOR RELIEF Influential Group of Pennsylvania Legisla tors Will Demand Drastic Retrenchment in States Overhead CAPITOL NOTES BY JAMES A SULLIVAN UP Staff Correspondent HARRISBURG Nov An influential group of Pennsylvania legislators today prepared to demand that statewide unemployment relief be financed solely by existing reven ues and by drastic retrenchment in the overhead of the state government Simultaneously another large fac tion aligned themselves with Gover nor Pinchot in his 15point plan for providing aid for unemployed and needy Pennsylvania residents through the through extra gasoline taxes cigarette and billboard taxa tion and a bond issue The divisions of opinions transcend ed party lines today as the legislators approached the eve of the nary session of the state legislature summoned by Governor Pinchot to meet Monday night to consider relief methods The legislators opposing any addi tional taxation or any bond issue flotation held that sufficient moneys to finance any unemployment relief measures are nqw in the state treasury and such additional sums as may be needed can be ed by exercise of economy in the state administration They asked reduction of salaries of all state employes a minimum figure set by several at annually elimination of tan clem job holding under which a single person holds several state salaried Continued on Page Three Santa Glaus Slapping Back NEW YORK Glaus will give the business depres sion an uppercut this year accord ing to the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks which today announced Christmas Club funds are the largest on record To help fill the nations Christmas stockings mutual savings banks of the country beginning about beV 1 will pay out no less than saved during the year by depositors the association announced This sum according to the on page rj PICTURE ON DEVELOPED FILM SAID CLUE TO MANY ROBBERIES PITTSBURGH Nov 7 Detectives hope tht identification of a child pictured pushing a lawn mower will reveal the owner of recovered jewelry furs and other stolen property they ered The picture was made from film in a camera discovered among the loot seized when followed Mrs Elsie deu to her rooming house after arresting Frank Nedeau her band allegedly while he was a dwelling here FLOWER SHOW OPENS NOV 11 Thousands Expected to Attend Exhibition of Blooms Not to Be Ex in nia This Year SOCIAL NOTES Only three days remain until the grand opening of the ninth annual Western Flower Show to be held at the C and E Motor and Battery Co show rooms November 11 12 13 and 14 Since large crowds are expected to attend the show aud in order to give those who work during the day a chance to witness it the Florists Association has arrang ed to keep the show open until in the evenings The show will open Armistice Day Wednesday ber at 2 10r30 M The other three days the show will open at 10 A M arid remain open until P M It is expected that many people from surrounding towns will visit In diana during the floral ox position Besides the retail florists entered In the show the Pittsburgh Flower and Garden with a mem of 150 and the Florists Tel Delivery Association of W eat ern Pennsylvania will hold their an meetings here during the show An interesting program of social events has been arranged for the vis iting men and women Wednesday evening November 11 there will be a social gathering of members on Thursday afternoon November 12 at a demonstration will be given at the Indiana Theatre on the same afternoon at there will be a meeting of the Florists Telegraph Delivery Association at the Indiana Theatre in the evening at 6 oclock the annual banquet and dance of the association will be held at the Hotel Moore Friday afternoon November 13 at 1 oclock a bridge luncheon for the ladles will be held at the In diana Hotel Friday afternoon at 2 oclock the regular business meet ing of the Association will be held at the Indiana Theatre Friday evening at 6 oclock there will be a dinner at the Hotel Moore followed by a theatre party at the Everyone is looking forward to the show with keen anticipation in view of the fact that it will be the floral display in Pennsylvania this year DEMOCRAT WINS BY 28VOTE MARGIN Nov Pershing Ligonier has won the closest most keenly fought political battle in Westmoreland county in years official returns showed today Not until the official returns were completed late last night was it learned Pershing a Democrat had won the minority county commission defeating John P Kilgore Re publican incumbent Greensburg He won by 28 votes with to Kil gores SAGAMORE YOUTH HELP FOR ASSAULT J C Me Kee 18 year old Sagamore con stables son Thursday night was held for court here at a hearing before Frank M Wray Justice of the Peace on charges that he struck and ser iously injured F F Fulton Sagamore Fulton testified he walked to a neighbors home for his brother and that McKee struck him in the mouth inflicting a gash in his lip McKee denied the charge He was released for court on bond Trolley Schedule A new schedule on the Indiana County Street Railways be effec tive Sunday November 8 sched ule will be found pu Page t issue i MANCHURIAN INDEPENDENCE Prince Kung Nam Group to Prepare tit Establish New Reply to Stimson LATE BULLETINS By UNITED PRESS Japanese troops emerged today after prolonged fighting in Northern Manchuria J but faced the possibility of other attack by Chinese The Chinese driven back to the Chinese Eastern H Railroad were reported to havi rallied when reinforcements join ed them and were said to be planning another with the Japanese troops at the Nonni River railroad bridge The Japanese government said Japans troops halted some 12 miles from the Chinese Eastern Railroad after driving Manchur ian soldiers from the Nouni bridge It was hoped it would not be necessary for them to advance further into the ed area f The League of Nations council confronted with two versions of the origin of the Nonni probably will study strong pressure on Japan to termination of hostilities DAIREN Manchuria Nov new Manchurian dence movement one of many ed by the present COT wag Manchu Prince Kung Prince Kung once ber of an old imperial Chinese ily who has here n Japanese protection for many y announced he had appointed a of 15 to prepare to establish a in Manchuria Prince Kung has been In ous political disputes with past years A home was provided for him Japanese in Dairen a port territory on the tip of Manchuria opining on the Gulf of Chili Continued on Page Two MARRIAGE IS f JUST MADE KNOWN A quiet wedding took place in Zipi Lutheran Church Saturday October 24 when Miss Bertha M daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Wagner of School street became bride cf Kenneth W Kelly son off Mr and Mrs Sherman ington street The Rev Pfohl officiated The attendants Miss Jane Wagner a sister of bride and Wendell Kelly a the bridegroom The bride had teacher in Brushvalley for the four years Mr and Mrs now in residence in 127 South Seep street this city JAY RALSTON NOW BENE Jay S Ralston of Penn Run Miss Esther A Groft of were married in Lewistown Nove ber 4 by the Rev Thomas minister of the Baptist Miss Howck Is Enga At a beautifully appointed in the Crystal Room at Hotel Friday evening was made of the Marian E Houck daughter and Mvs James W Houck South Third street tWs James A Gibbons son J G Gibbons of Y Luncheon followed the date of the marriage not chosen Josephine The revival meeting ducted by Evangelist James f fin of Marion ia the school at Josephine is taking QQ tions and interest is ices will continue 15 Sunday School and W C T V The stated g U will be held ember 8 Fw and coal
